Containers at scale on Chinese clouds

How and why we use Terraform to spawn Kubernetes clusters on AliCloud.

With an internet population quickly closing on 1 billion, China is one of
the most challenging, and exciting, place to be when it comes to massively scaling digital platforms.

Last November, Alibaba alone set a new Singles Day record with more than USD 30.8 billion
(with a “b”) in sales in only 24 hours.

This market demands elastic infrastructure able to cope with massive traffic surges,
and we’ve done so for a few years already leveraging cloud providers in China
(Qingcloud, Tencent Cloud, Aliyun, AWS) and containers with Kubernetes.

Let me share a few things we learnt along the way.

Picking a way to run Kubernetes

First things first: Kubernetes is just a tool.

It’s not magic. You’ll need to set it up and dedicate resources to maintain it.

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